VIOLIN

Cheng-Chih Kevin Tsai, Concertmaster   Ingrid Tang, Principal   Alexei Yavtuhovich             
Chika Mimura
Dezheng Ping
Eliso Gegeshidze Emiliano Moreno  
Eugenia Goldman  Kit-Ying Cheng  
Milena Dawidowicz
Nelly Federova Nora Lee Samantha Tomblin
Soyeong Stacy Kim
Stephen Shen
Yeji Kim

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VIOLA

Ning Mu, Principal
Hyunjung Song Yujie Wang

violoncello

Hyojin Lee, Principal
Elizabeth Lee
Elliot Wells
Ju Hyeon Kim
Myeong-Jin Kim
Tsung-Yu Tsai                                                                      

BASS

Nate White, Principal
Justin Phillips

VIOLIN

Ingrid Tang, a co-concertmaster of the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, was born in China, receiving her early training on the violin from her mother. She was later accepted and studied at the Shenyang Music Institute. In the beginning year of 1980, Ms. Tang was recommended to the National Orchestra of the Air Force in China, where she played as a professional violinist for more than ten years and later became the co-concertmaster of the Chinese National Orchestra of the Air Force. Ms. Tang also studied and received her degrees at the National Arts Institute in Beijing. Ms. Tang is currently living in Dayton, New Jersey where she performs actively as a chamber musician of Trio Cordialis and other chamber music groups, playing with Boheme Opera NJ, New Jersey Capital Philharmonic Orchestra. She maintains an active private teaching studio for 20 years and received 2014 Teacher of the Year Award of New Jersey Music Teachers Association. She also serves as a chairperson for strings of the New Jersey Music Teachers Association.

VIOLA

Ning Mu, principal violist of the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, is an experienced soloist and chamber and orchestral musician. He has received numerous awards for musical excellence in China and the US. He has performed in chamber music concerts in Carnegie Weill Recital Hall and Alice Tully Hall, including appearing with the Guarneri String Quartet. He recently gave a highly acclaimed performance of the “Butterfly Lovers" Concerto at the Ware Center in Lancaster, PA. Mr. Mu began studying violin with his father at 8 years old. He graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music of Beijing with a Bachelor’s degree, and received a Master’s degree at Rutgers University under Michael Tree. Mr. Mu taught violin and viola at the Pennsylvania Academy of Music in Lancaster, and conducted its Philharmonic Orchestra. He was also a viola professor at Franklin and Marshall College. Mr. Mu is the founder and Artistic Director of the International Festival and School in Colombia, South America. He has given master classes and chamber music recitals at the National Center for the Performing Arts and the China Conservatory of Music in Beijing.

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Dr. Hyojin Lee has appeared as a soloist with such orchestras as the Slovak Košice National Philharmon- ic, the Hungary Savaria Symphony, Soli Deo Orchestra, the Kyungbook Symphony, the Keimyung University Orchestra, Daegu Philharmonic Orchestra, Multimedia Art Ensemble ARS and the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra. She has given solo recitals at venues including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center in New York. She has served as principal cellist of the Indiana Concert Orchestra, IN, Daegu Contemporary Music Orchestra and Daegu Opera House Orchestra, South Korea.

She won multiple prizes in national and international competitions such as National Music Competition sponsored by TBC Broadcasting Corporation and Jinhae Goonhang Music Festival Competition, South Korea.

Ms. Lee was a recipient of the Dean’s Music Merit Scholarship at Indiana University,
where she received her Master of Music degree and her Performer’s Diploma. She is holding the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Rutgers University, where she was awarded the top scholarship with full Scholarship and Stipend. Her major teachers are all world-renowned cellists and Tchaikovsky Competition judges, including prominent figures such as Csaba Onczay, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, and Kazimierz M. Michalik. Additionally, she had the privilege of learning from the legendary cellist Janos Starker, whose influence significantly shaped her musical development. She has participated in numerous master classes with such artists as Gary Hoffman, Julius Berger, Werner Thomas-Mifune, and Timothy Eddy, as well as festivals in Europe including the Mozarteum Music Festival (Austria) and the Zagan Music Academy (Poland).

Ms. Lee has premiered numerous works by composers including Eunshil Kwon, Gregory Kim, and Jaman Koo, Stefan Swanson, Gregory Rossetti and Joshua Booth.

She currently serves as a chamber music coach at Bravura Youth program, as well as a cello instructor and chamber music coach at the 4string Music Festival in New York and the Northern Light Music Festival in Northern Minnesota where she performs as the principal cellist of the festival orchestra and chamber mu- sician during the summer.

For more informations, please visit www.cellohyojinlee.com.